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Helping you discover your family history. Tue, 22 May 2018 04:47:29 +0000hourly1By: Mark S.https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/11/01/family-tree-maker-downloading-your-ancestry-member-tree/#comment-50606
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:12:34 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=4846#comment-50606I have used FTM since 1993 and joined Ancestry last January. I am not an intuitive computer use, heck, I need help to manage photos. But I followed the download instructions in the post to the letter, and it never advanced beyond 1% completion and it ran for about 14 hrs. Very disappointing.
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Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:03:27 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=4846#comment-50580Re: #10 Jeff

Thank You, from someone who intuitively uses software. I have always thought this program fairly self explanatory.

When I had a problem or question in the past, the online help/knowledge base answered those questions. Occasionally, I read thru these articles and comments and sometimes there is an “Ah ha” moment. Something you’ve questioned or thought about but were too involved (or lazy) to track down the answer.

A manual, you say. Dang!

And while browsing thru the table of contents, it too gave me an “Ahh ha” reaction after scanning thru the sections on maps. Double dang! They always said you could trace an ancestor’s migration! And so you can, if you tweak the place names. It appears Bing doesn’t always like the county names in with the place name. Sometimes it returns an incorrect location when the county is included. But hey, I’m not perfect either.

Again thanks for info/reminder that the manual IS included in program folder with your program. Sometimes it even helps if you read it!

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Cynthia, thanks for the reminder. Anyone who is merging files together should really pay attention to how the information will be added to your tree. Otherwise there can be a lot of cleanup. And also, backup, backup, backup.

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Bill, can you tell me what types of errors you were receiving? There may be some I could help you with.

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Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:45:55 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=4846#comment-50562I also have been using FTM since the beginning of FTM and also Ancestry.com for years. I have tried the downloading feature in FTM 2010 like in the hint above. I attempted to merge the ancestry.com and FTM files (I made a separate copy of full FTM file before merging – glad I did). As stated above, I got many, many duplicates and errors for my 1000+ names, way more than I could ever resolve. I bought FTM2011 and will try this again. However, it is disappointing that it appears better to just merge data by hand not automatically.
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Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:03:44 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=4846#comment-50554Please make the ability to sync a top priority. There are dozens of programs out there (have been for years) that do this well, such as Quicken, Outlook, Picasa and recently g-mail. Sure it’s complex, but it can be done. The fact you have taken so long without any real progress means that you really are not putting your best people on this or you simply don’t have very good developers. Very disapointing.
]]>By: Carol A. H.https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/11/01/family-tree-maker-downloading-your-ancestry-member-tree/#comment-50553
Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:57:35 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=4846#comment-50553The people who copy records and ancestors without any research on their own are called “name gatherers.” It’s junk genealogy and gives a bad name to Ancestry.

I received a “hint” to another tree and the person who “claims” my ancestor has accepted a census record after the death date! And ancestry doesn’t have a warning system for this dumb stuff! Duh!!!

BTW, this person is not really related to me.

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Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:35:58 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=4846#comment-50531I’m with Nina on her issues with so many of the users just adding the “hint” stuff to their tree without really thinking about whether it really belongs there. I have found that several of my ancestors have been added to other trees in the most obviously ill-fitting places. I only use other trees as a jumping off point for further research. Some folks out there have done an exceptional job at sourcing their trees – others (the ones giving ancestry a bad name) just accept, accept, accept any hit that comes up.
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Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:23:03 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=4846#comment-50512I have just spent the last week, cleaning up duplicate information in my FTM file. I merged three files and instead of going thru each of the flagged records, I just told the system to accept all. That is where the duplicate information comes from. So my advice is to pay very close attention to what you are merging! As for using FTM, I have used it since version 1 (yes, I still have the floppy disk!) and I love it. I have tried other programs and always revert back to FTM.
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Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:25:54 +0000http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=4846#comment-50510i agree with this i am new to this website and to family history. one dayt i woke up and relized i wanted to know my orgin so i got on thew internet. this site has helped a lot
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